CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip

After a two hour test of which world leader would bend or break, Donald Trump doesn’t get what he really wants from Vladimir Putin. Plus, Chief Justice John Roberts puts his name behind a statement, telling the president to stop threatening judges.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Gaza’s fragile ceasefire shattered early Tuesday as Israel carried out what it described as extensive strikes across the enclave, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowing to use “increasing military strength” against Hamas. “Tonight we returned to fighting in Gaza,” Defense Minister Israel Katz said. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The President promises to put the DOJ on a road to perdition in a speech that reads like a Truth Social rant. Plus, the Trump administration contemplates if protests can count as supporting terror while thinking through how to tell schools what they can and cannot teach.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As markets fall deeper so do the president’s heels. Plus, a judge orders Trump and his DOGE posse to bring back tens of thousands over sham firings.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Donald Trump is now viewed not as celebrated head of state but as weakening the economy he said he would fix. Plus, a judge tells Trump point blank that he can’t act like the Queen of Hearts, yelling off with their heads.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The White House or a Tesla dealership? The President and Elon Musk ask America to walk off the lot with new cars. Plus, the economy suffers another shaky day, raising questions about the president’s plan and if he has one.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The markets take another wild swing as the president won’t predict whether the United States will slide into a recession. Plus, fights, outages, and setbacks. A closer look at how Musk’s world has turned since he has come to Washington.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Donald Trump wants Biden to own all the bad about the economy. But, what happens when the data says things aren’t awful? Plus, the Pentagon scrubs so called DEI content from its archives stumbling into erasing history.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Donald Trump postpones tariffs one more time as his promise to make America rich again clashes with job cuts mirroring the Great Recession. Plus, the President takes away Elon’s hatchet and replaces with a scalpel while promising his cabinet will get a say in what is surgically removed from the federal bureaucracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Donald Trump takes the road many say he should not have traveled to begin with, undoing tariffs on allies as the courts put roadblocks in the way of his DOGE driven agenda. Plus, Democrats put themselves on display at Trump’s address to Congress. But, do Americans like what they see?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As President Trump stops all military aid to Ukraine, will Zelensky apologize or will the American president not give the Ukrainian president a shot at forgiveness? Plus, tariffs and trouble add new taxes on consumers.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A shouting match between Trump & Zelensky echoes across the globe. The president turns the Oval Office into The Apprentice to stage a reality TV spectacle to embarrass Ukraine’s president.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A judge tells the Trump administration there is no universe where DOGE’s deep cuts are legal while conservative radio gets an earful from their own people. Plus, MAGA reportedly imports alleged criminals accused of heinous crimes against women.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In his first Cabinet meeting, Donald Trump cedes the floor to someone not in his Cabinet. Plus, federal workers are now being recast from villainized to fictionalized. Also, Amazon’s billionaire tells his paper how they’ll think and what they’ll think about.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Elon Musk’s presence at President Donald Trump’s first Cabinet meeting on Wednesday will solidify his power in the administration. But Musk’s attendance at the meeting comes as his attempts to gut the federal workforce and reshape it in Trump’s image, including giving sweeping orders to employees across the government, has begun to grate on Cabinet secretaries and members of Congress, multiple sou...

Federal workers have less than two hours left to email Elon Musk to explain why they should still get paychecks as Trump’s cabinet says one thing while Trump says another. Plus, the new number two at the FBI is a podcast host who makes a living by promoting conspiracy theories.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Were Donald Trump’s eyes bigger than America’s appetite for change? Polls warn the president that voters think he’s doing much too much as the courts tell Trump no. Also, President Trump fires the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff months after his Pentagon chief said to do just that.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Right cheers on DOGE until DOGE comes for them. Plus, red flashing lights on the fate of the economy as MAGA moves the goal posts.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Donald Trump puts pettiness and Putin before all else. With a Truth Social smear, the American president turns his back on the West, turns Volodymyr Zelensky into a villain, and turns Ukraine’s existence into a question mark.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Civil servants abandon their government gigs as the Trump administration refuses to say who’s leading the president’s great purge of the federal bureaucracy.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Upside-down and burning marked the end of a terrifying trip for 80 passengers and crew on a Delta Air Lines flight after it crashed while landing in Toronto, Canada.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Trump administration brags about a deal as another prosecutor says to find a different fool to do their bidding. Plus, the Trump layoffs come for the men and women tasked with managing the nation’s nukes. Also, the White House shuts out the Associated Press from the briefing room.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Manhattan’s top prosecutor quits, but not before writing out her reasons why and accusing Trump’s Justice Department of accepting a quid pro quo to go easy on New York City’s mayor. Plus, a photo opportunity between India’s prime minister and Elon Musk renews questions over if the billionaire is pulling the strings of President Trump.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adc...

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said that the war between Ukraine and Russia “must end,” that Kyiv joining NATO is unrealistic and that the US will no longer prioritize European and Ukrainian security as the Trump administration shifts its attention to securing the US’ own borders and deterring war with China. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Elon Musk brushed off questions about the authorities he is using to gut entire agencies, saying instead that Trump’s election last November amounted to license enough to carry out the will of voters. “The people voted for major government reform, and that’s what the people are going to get,” he said. “That’s what democracy is all about.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/...